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<h3><strong>Lives in Pencil, Pen, and Ink with Word Balloons</strong></h3>
<p>Told and drawn in the comic book, or, if you prefer, the graphic novel, format these three autobiographical memoirs of childhood have the power of classics like Augustine&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Augustine%20confessions&amp;index=.GH "><strong>Confessions </strong></a>or Frank McCourt&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=McCourt%20ashes&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Angela's Ashes</strong></a>. They are stories of children coming to terms with their identity in an unstable and therefore frightening environment. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780618871711/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc="><img width="75" height="114" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780618871711/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc= " alt="Fun home" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Bechdel%20Fun%20home&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic</strong></a> / Alison Bechdel<br />
Bechdel&rsquo;s memoir of growing up in rural Pennsylvania is tinted in shades of blue. Her parents taught English, and father worked in the family funeral home, or &ldquo;Fun Home&rdquo; as she and her brothers referred to it. The book is constructed as a series of chapters that are meditative revelations, each one building on and revealing more than the previous one. Each one uses a different work of literature and its author as the reflecting mirror for her family life: the Greek myth of <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Icarus%20%28Greek%20mythology%29&amp;index=.GH">Icarus</a>, <strong>A Happy Death</strong> by Albert Camus, Marcel Proust&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Proust%20Marcel%20%20recherche%20du%20temps%20perdu%20English&amp;index=.GH"><strong>In Search of Lost Time</strong></a> or as she translates it, &ldquo;this means not just lost but ruined, undone, wasted, wrecked, and spoiled,&rdquo; The Wind in the Willows, &ldquo;<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Wilde,%20Oscar%20ideal%20husband&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Ideal Husband</strong></a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Wilde,%20Oscar%20Importance%20Ernest&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Importance of Being Ernest</strong></a>&rdquo; by Oscar Wilde, James Joyce&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Ulysses%20James%20Joyce%20Married%20people%20Fiction%20NOT%20Eccles&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Ulysses</strong></a>, and Homer&rsquo;s <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Homer%20Odyssey&amp;index=.GH">original</a>. <br />
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It&rsquo;s also the story of her father&rsquo;s death&mdash;was it a suicide or an accident?&mdash;and of her relationship to him. She learned of her father&rsquo;s hidden sexuality, only as a result of her coming out to her parents as a lesbian when she was in college only four months before he died. A few weeks after her letter home, her mother, not her father, called to tell her about it. Instead of an opportunity to talk about a common experience, it became another instance of their antipodal relationship. As she puts it earlier in the book, &ldquo;I was Spartan to my father&rsquo;s Athenian. Modern to his Victorian. Butch to his Nelly. Utilitarian to his Aesthete.&rdquo;<br />
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Yet the book begins and ends with scenes of her father catching her as she leaps into his arms. She has said that she is not angry with her father, although her affection for him reveals itself more clearly in her <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5489007">interviews </a>with the press, than in the book. Her statement there is, &ldquo;His bursts of kindness were as incandescent as his tantrums were dark.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780375422300/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc="><img width="75" height="115" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780375422300/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc= " alt="Persepolis" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Persepolis%20childhood%20story%20NOT%20Charters&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood</strong></a> / Marjane Satrapi<br />
Satrapi, the daughter of Iranian intellectuals recounts incidents from her childhood beginning at age ten, when she and all the other girls at her school are told that they are now required to wear a veil. Then she recounts her earlier life, her religious feelings and how she learned about her county&rsquo;s history and the power struggles to rule it, from antiquity to the twentieth century, which included her maternal grandfather, a prince who became prime mininster, and then a Communist, and then a prisoner of the Shah. She remembers the revolution which exiled the Shah, the freeing of political prisoners and the return of exiles, and the transformation of the county into a theocracy which executed the former prisioners and exiles. Eventually the religiously driven social repression and the horrors of the Iran-Irag war cause her parents to send her, at age fourteeen, out of the county to Austria. The last scence is their tearful parting at the airport as she prepares to depart. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780393068573/LC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc="><img width="75" height="96" src=" http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780393068573/LC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=" alt="Stitches" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Stitches%20David%20Small%20memoir&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Stitches: a Memoir</strong></a> / David Small<br />
Small&rsquo;s memoir of his youth is sparsely worded and powerfully composed visually. It&rsquo;s a choice that fits his family where silence became a denial of reality. An operation when he was fourteen for a cyst on his throat reveals a cancer that leads to a second operation and the removal of one of his vocal chords. His parents do not tell him that he has cancer, and when he accidentally discovers it, they forbid him from talking about it. This is symptomatic of the family&rsquo;s denial of uncomfortable facts. By not giving voice to them they avoid accepting them, but at a high psychological cost. Using pen and brush Small reveals this frightful environment and his liberation from it. <br />
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<li><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Harvey%20Pekar%20quitter&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Quitter</strong></a> / Harvey Pekar&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Safe%20Area%20Gorazde%20Joe%20Sacco%20&amp;index=.GH "><strong>Safe Area Goražde</strong></a> / Joe Sacco</li>
<li><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Maus%20Spiegelman%20&amp;index=.GH "><strong>Maus: a Survivor's Tale</strong></a> / Art Spiegelman </li>
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<p>Mary Karr and Maya Angelou are talented authors of both poems and memoirs. With the remembered perceptions of a child and the skills of a mature artist these women recount the early years of their lives. These are honest stories about childhoods, not books written for children. The authors are plain spoken about the political and economic conditions they lived through, their sexuality and adolescence, so while they never lose the beauty and command of the language, the content of these memoirs is frank. This is to say that they are occasionally painful as well as joyful and celebratory. They are all well worth reading not only for their honesty, but also for their command of the language.</p>
<p><strong>Mary Karr&nbsp;</strong><br />
<strong>Autobiography&nbsp;</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0670850535:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp"><img alt="Liars' Club" width="100" height="154" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0670850535:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=club%20Karr&amp;index=.GH#focus">The Liar's Club: a Memoir </a></strong>/ Mary Karr</p>
<p>Karr reminisces about two years from her childhood, 1961and 1962, and the year her father died, 1980. Growing up in an East Texas oil town outside Port Arthur was not an idyllic setting. And many of her memories are frightening, and not as a result of the setting. As a child she was sexually assaulted twice, once by an older boy and once by an adult caregiver. These incidents are remembered with appropriate bitterness. Her parents drinking led to spectacular fights and dangerous antics. Her mother once threatened her and her older sister with a knife. Nevertheless, this is not just a how-tough-I-had-it-in-my-dysfunctional-family memoir. It&rsquo;s also a story about her sister&rsquo;s care and her own self-reliance and her love for her parents. Her favorite times were in the presence of her father and his friends, especially when they told stories. Wherever they gathered they called the Liars' Club. She also remembers with amused pride her own ability to stand up for herself. Physically and verbally, she was seldom cowed, whether in fist fight or theological debate.</p>
<p>&quot;Sundays, when Carol Sharp came home from Bible school&mdash;her black hair pinched and shining in twin plastic barrettes, her petticoat sticking her pink skirt out sideways&mdash;and announced, while I was digging for worms in the flower box, how God had made me from dirt, I said I wasn&rsquo;t dirt, and I wasn&rsquo;t God&rsquo;s Barbie doll either. And why would God set Death loose among us like some wind-up robot destroyer if he loved us so much. (page 106)&quot;</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=club%20Karr&amp;index=.GH#focus">The Liar&rsquo;s Club</a></strong> was followed by <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Cherry%20Karr&amp;index=.GH#focus">Cherry</a></strong>, reminiscences of her years as a teen. Her <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybygtce">third volume of memoirs</a>, <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Lit%20Karr&amp;index=.GH#focus">Lit</a></strong>, was published on November 9, 2009.<br />
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<p><strong>Poetry</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0060776544:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp"><img alt="Sinners Welcome" width="100" height="152" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0060776544:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Sinners%20welcome%20Karr&amp;index=.GH#focus">Sinners Welcome: Poems </a></strong>/ Mary Karr</p>
<p>If the neon cross on the cover and the title hadn&rsquo;t forewarned me the latest book of poems by the author of The Liar&rsquo;s Club and Cherry, the large amount of traditional Christian religious imagery and subject matter would have come as bit of a surprise.&nbsp; Her memoirs of growing up in East Texas contain few references to religion and only a passing allusion to infrequent church visits with neighbors and a fight with girl who accused her (accurately) of saying that the pope dressed like a girl. Other than that there&rsquo;s her flat statement on page 44 of The Liar&rsquo;s Club, &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t go to church.&rdquo;</p>
<p>So reading Sinners Welcome reminded me of the bits on Monty Python when John Cleese intones, &ldquo;And now for something completely different.&rdquo;&nbsp; If you are like me, you might want to start at the back of the book with the essay &ldquo;Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer,&rdquo; which tells of her 1996 conversion, &ldquo;after a lifetime of undiluted agnosticism.&rdquo; The poems themselves are clear, as befits a poet that proclaimed herself, &ldquo;Against Decoration,&rdquo; but certainly not without vivid images and language. And although religious, they are certainly not pious, as witnessed by titles like, &ldquo;Hypertrophied Football Star as Serial Killer,&rdquo; &ldquo;Hurt Hospital&rsquo;s Best Suicide Jokes,&rdquo; and &rdquo;At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave a Message.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Maya Angelou</strong></p>
<p><strong>Autobiography</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780375507892/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc="><img alt="I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" width="100" height="152" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=9780375507892/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Caged%20Bird%20Sings%20Maya&amp;index=.GH#focus">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings </a></strong>/ Maya Angelou</p>
<p>Civil Rights activist, poet and performer Maya Angelou recounts her childhood in what has become a modern classic of autobiography.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed&mdash;&ldquo;To Whom It May Concern&rdquo;&mdash;that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson, Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The owner of the Wm. Johnson General Merchandise Store in Stamps, Annie Henderson, her grandmother, became Momma for Marguerite and her brother. It was her brother Bailey who in his toddler tongue claimed her as &ldquo;Maya&rdquo; (my) sister. The store was the gathering place for the African American workers on their way to and from their day&rsquo;s work in the cotton fields. It was there that she learned her mathematics at the cash register and there that she and her brother learned to read and love reading, and there that they discovered that alien race with their strange and unfriendly ways that lived in the other side of town, &ldquo;whitefolks.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But her childhood in the rural South with its church revivals, community fish fries, and first friends was interrupted suddenly when their father showed up unexpectedly and took them to live with their mother in St. Louis. With its strange foods, doorbells, flush toilets and noisy automobiles, St. Louis was like a foreign county. But it was a country with their glamorous and beautiful mother and her family. Momma, their Johnson grandmother was a pious woman of character who feared no one but God. By contrast Grandmother Baxter was a political force in the city with influence over the police, and feared no man.</p>
<p>Political power however was no protection against domestic danger. Eight-year-old Marguerite was molested by her mother&rsquo;s boyfriend. The trauma sent her into silence and depression and back to Arkansas. There the regard of the educated Mrs. Flowers who encouraged her reading and plied her with tea and cooking gave her back her voice.</p>
<p>Her next move out of Arkansas with her brother was to San Francisco where her mother now lived. There, during the Second World War, she attended high school, and through dogged perseverance became the first black conductor on the streetcars.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969 was followed by an additional five volumes of autobiography: <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Gather%20Name%20Maya&amp;index=.GH#focus">Gather Together in My Name </a></strong>in 1974, <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Maya%20Gettin%20Merry&amp;index=.GH#focus">Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas </a></strong>in 1976, <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Maya%20Heart%20Woman%20Angelou&amp;index=.GH#focus">The Heart of a Woman </a></strong>in 1981, <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=traveling%20shoes%20Maya&amp;index=.GH#focus">All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes</a></strong> in 1986, and<strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Maya%20Flung&amp;index=.GH#focus">A Song Flung Up To Heaven</a></strong> in&nbsp;2002. <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=collected%20autobiographies%20of%20Maya&amp;index=.GH#focus">The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou</a></strong> were gathered together by the Modern Library in 2004.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Poetry&nbsp;</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.hcpl.net/sites/default/files/Celebrations.jpg"><img alt="Celebrations" width="100" height="160" src="http://www.hcpl.net/sites/default/files/Celebrations.jpg" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Celebrations%20Angelou&amp;index=.GH#focus">Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer </a></strong>/ Maya Angelou <br />
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These are poems for public pronouncement: an inauguration, an anniversary, a birthday, a retirement, a march, a Christmas tree lighting, Mother&rsquo;s day, memorial services, a Bar Mitzvah, and a prayer. All the poems are written to be read aloud at public gatherings, and all succeed at eulogizing, celebrating, and petitioning for grace. Angelou&rsquo;s command of the poetic form is combined with the skill of an orator. Just reading the script for them it&rsquo;s easy to hear the mighty cadence of marching vowel sounds ricocheting off Capitol steps, marble monuments and the hard wooden walls of worship halls.</p>
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<p><img hspace="5" alt="It's Not Necessarily Not the Truth" vspace="5" align="left" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0061454141:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp" />I&rsquo;ve been walking past a book on the new bookshelf for a couple of weeks now, and I just can&rsquo;t help but look at the cover and smile.&nbsp; It has this adorable little blonde-haired girl with a sweet little sugar-coated smile that makes you feel warm and sunny inside.&nbsp; (I do have to confess though that at first I thought it was one of those good-girls-who-turned-out-to-be-murderers type of books. Glad I was wrong!)</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s actually an autobiography of <a href="http://jaimepressly.com">Jaime Pressly</a> from the TV show <a href="http://www.nbc.com/My_Name_Is_Earl">My Name Is Earl</a>.&nbsp; <strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=not%20necessarily%20truth%20pressly&amp;index=.GH#focus">It&rsquo;s Not Necessarily Not the Truth</a></strong> looks to be a warm, funny portrayal of a small-town Southern girl who dreamed big.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m moving past the cover now and opening it up for a good read.</p><span st_url=http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly st_title='Who is Jaime Pressly?' class='st_facebook' ></span><span st_url=http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly st_title='Who is Jaime Pressly?' class='st_twitter' ></span><span st_url=http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly st_title='Who is Jaime Pressly?' class='st_digg' ></span><span st_url=http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly st_title='Who is Jaime Pressly?' class='st_pinterest' ></span><span st_url=http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly st_title='Who is Jaime Pressly?' class='st_email' ></span><script type='text/javascript'>var switchTo5x=true;</script>
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<script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({publisher:''});</script>http://www.hcpl.net/content/who-jaime-pressly#commentsautobiographiesNonfictionThu, 27 Aug 2009 15:31:01 +0000Angel Hill1854 at http://www.hcpl.netJulie & Julia - The Bookshttp://www.hcpl.net/content/julie-julia-books
<p><img title="Julie &amp; Julia" alt="Julie &amp; Julia" width="58" height="94" style="float: left; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=031604251X:/SC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp" />Do you like to read the book before the movie comes out?&nbsp; Or do you see the movie &amp; then the book?&nbsp; I sometimes find I'm disappointed by the movie because the book is SO much better.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well, the new <strong>Julie &amp; Julia</strong> movie is coming out soon, but did you know it's based on not one, but&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline">two</span> books: <strong><a title="My Life in France" target="_blank" href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=my%20life%20in%20france%20julia%20child%20alex&amp;index=.GH#focus">My Life in France</a></strong> by <a title="Julia Child" target="_blank" href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=\&quot;julia%20child\&quot;&amp;index=.GH#focus">Julia Child</a> and <strong><a title="Julie &amp; Julia" target="_blank" href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=julie%20julia%20powell&amp;index=.GH#focus">Julie &amp; Julia</a></strong> by Julie Powell.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
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<script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({publisher:''});</script>http://www.hcpl.net/content/julie-julia-books#commentsautobiographiescookingNonfictionThu, 30 Jul 2009 22:07:32 +0000Angel Hill1513 at http://www.hcpl.net